To affirm the “rights of conscience” for non-Christians is to interfere with the magistrate’s duty to “maintain piety” (WCF 23.3). We cannot affirm both.

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As evidence, in 1801—when Christians in Virginia were a mix of Presbyterians, Anglicans, Methodists, & Baptists—Presbyterian minister Conrad Speece wrote:. “Christians are generally agreed, in the belief of a divine warrant for the observation of the Christian sabbath.”.

Catholic immigration was one of the main causes of anti-Sabbatarianism in America.

Sabbatarianism "was most certainly a battle between native-born and foreign-born Americans. the retention of the traditional Sabbath was decidedly a Protestant—not Catholic—concern.". –William Baker, Playing with God: Religion and Modern Sport (Harvard University Press, 2007),.

"Good morals cannot exist—not even according to nature itself—among human beings who do not observe and sanctify to the Lord one day out of seven." . –Franciscus Junius, The Mosaic Polity, p. 143.

If you deny that Christ bore your sins on the cross, you’re in a bad place.

Anti-Sabbatarians hold that the 4th Commandment has been entirely abrogated. However, God established the Sabbath at creation (Gen. 2:3, Ex. 20:11). Therefore, anti-Sabbatarians hold that (1) Christ’s coming overturned the weekly pattern of worship rooted in creation, (2) and.

The 1869 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (Northern Old School) adopted a report “relating to unscriptural views of marriage, divorce, and infanticide.” This is fascinating because it shows that divorce and abortion were becoming more common in the mid to late.

Thomas Peck held that civil government would have been part of human society had Adam not fallen into sin:. “In any condition of our race, the social nature of man must have given rise to the secular power. In a state of innocence it would have been simply a directing power, a.

If you read old theology books, you know there were lots of different publishers and they did not exert the academic gatekeeping we've seen from the large Christians publishers in the last century (e.g., Eerdmans, Zondervan, Baker, IVP). These companies still have influence, and.

I get that they rejected infant baptism. But come on!.

But the LORD has been my stronghold, .And my God the rock of my refuge. He has brought back their wickedness upon them .And will destroy them in their evil; .The LORD our God will destroy them. Psalm 94:22-23.

Opponents of the death penalty think they’re anti-death—when in reality they’re anti-just-death. God calls the magistrate to punish unjust death (murder) with just death (capital punishment). It’s not *whether* death, but *which* death is sanctioned.

Apparently it’s more “civilized” to lock people in cages until they die.

The LORD is for me; I will not fear; What can man do to me?.–Psalm 118:6. If God is for us, who is against us?.–Romans 8:31.

RT @irishpresby: .@ZacharyGarris and I just received the foreword to our upcoming book by a prominent Presbyterian historian. Thankful thin….

Repeating variations of the same argument is good—if it’s a good argument…. Don’t be that guy.

The first professor of what is now Indiana University was a Presbyterian minister—Baynard Rush Hall (1793–1863) of Pennsylvania, a classicist and graduate of Princeton Seminary.

And the follow-up.

Here’s my case from the Bible for Christian Sabbatarianism.